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De-Civilization In Kafka's Metamorphosis

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Kafka’s Metamorphosis can be analyzed from the perspective of de-familiarization. That 's because, throught out this work, Kafka is seen busy in defamiliarizing everything and anything. Everything which seem ordinary is transformed into something extraordinary. A man take the shape of a bug: this defamiliarizes the man. We, as critical readers, are compelled to look at Gregor, and so other people in general, and see him, and everyone around us, as vermin. Is Kafka trying to suggest that we all are really nothing more than bugs? Well, if we look in the grand scheme of the universe, we sort of are. May be even less than bugs. Kafka does not stop here, even the bug is defamiliarized by Kafka. What would be our reaction when one of those creepy
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